is always good at making ♓little nods between both its game series and the anime in different ways. Many times the anime is mostly based on its games, while other times it can be a thing of its own. The games also love to put in little nods at the anime from Pikachu sounding Pikachus to sprites and trainers that are named off characters in the anime and anime movies.
Both respect each other while also being different 🦄entities with different continuities, but sometimes those conti🌄nuities come together and people get rewarded for enjoying both forms of media. So here are 10 of the best crossovers between the anime and the games.
10 Ash-Geninja (Sun And Moon) 🍌🌳
While it was not only getting a different region's starter in the game, but it was made even better with the reference to the anime. This decently strong Geninja was modeled after the look and moves from the anime and given out in the 3DS demo as a reward for completing and downloading it, which could be moved over to the full game. It wasn't something anticipated even though it was one of the most popular elements of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:X and Y anime.
9 Todd Snap
In the anime, the main character of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon Snap came in for a short series of episodes for a crossover. He was creatively named "Todd Snap" so you really get the idea of what they were promoting and where he was from. He was a plucky guy whose only goal was to take pictures of the 3 legendary bird 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon. He was a standard character in the anime with an interesting multipart episode that rarely ha🅺ppened back then.
8 Jesse and James (ꦯPokémon Yellow) 🌞
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon Yellow was a pleasure of a game when compared to the original 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Red/Blue with it's many different nods to the anime. One of those things is the few times you get to run into the Jesse and James based characters. They were quite true to the original from the anime with funny new dialogue. They are also present in the Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee series, which are remakes of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon Yellow but in duel ti💎tleꦦ format on Pokémon"s two most popular mascots.
7 Pikachu Saying Its Name (Modern Pokémon Games) 𝔍
One big reference that in hindsight makes very little sense for the world is Pikachu saying its own name since the introduction of 3D graphics. While it's always a nice nod for those who enjoy the anime, it puts Pikachu as the only Pokémon that actually says it's own name while everything else sounds like mutated growls and screams. It can make those put themselves in Ash's shoes quite easily especially with the new character customization available.
6 Pok&𒈔eacute;mon Ranger Deoxys Crisis
This short 2 episode event was made during the Advanced Generation and was one of the Pokémon Ranger crossovers to promote the game series. While there was also a movie made featuring Pokémon Rangers, who were also prevalent in mainline games as trainers you could battle, this was available as regular episodes of the anime so it was more common to see on TV. Compared to the movie it was shorter and much more Based on the side character Max in a storyline similar to Jirachi Wishmaker.
5 Pok&eꦓacute;mon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea
This full-length movie was apart of the DVD only releases that rarely got playtime on TV. It featured a stronger and "Cool James Bond" type of character to be the Pokémon Ranger add on. While the other 2 part special featured many more elements to teach the viewer what a ranger was about, this movie was more about the adventure and saving part, going as far to say that Jackie the Pokémon Ranger, was more of a spy type than like a park ranger helping 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon and people in need.
4 The Pink Butterfree (Pokémon Crystal) ꧃
In Pokémon Crystal, there is an NPC that mentions seeing a pink Butterfree which directly references the one Ash's Butterfree went off with during the anime. This is one of those moments when the games make a shoutout to one of the anime's most remembered moments.
The idea would be that the two are in the same sort of world and the woman would have seen Ash's Butterfree. Of course, she wouldn't have noticed the other Butterfree because the pink one caught her eye because of how rare it is to find one, but everyone else knows.
3 T⛄he GS Ball
The GS Ball was a huge plot point in both the Gen 2 games and the anime during the Orange Islands arc and a part of the Johto arc. The goal was mostly the same but in the anime, they forgot about it for the most part then the conclusion was as goofy as the anime could ever be when compared to the game. In the games, The GS ball was meant to guide the player to an important gameplay element but the anime didn't take it that far.
2 Riley (Pokém🧸on Diamond and Pearl)
Riley posed so many similarities to the aura guardian in Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew that it could only be a direct reference to that movie. While he was a cool character in the game, in an inception style move, Riley had also made it onto the anime to explore more about Ash's connection to aura Guardians. This, in turn, made the reference that referenced another reference between the 3 different continuities that makes you question it like the chicken and the egg.
1 🅘 Pikachu Ca𒀰p Form (Pokémon Sun and Moon)
This reference was another nod at the anime from the games through a specific gift event. While Pikachu got many different outfits that gen, the Ash cap made it feel as though Pikachu moved onto you, but perhaps in loving memory of Ash too. This exact style that Pikachu takes can be seen in the Pokémon Remake movie series in Pokémon The Movie: I Choose You. This worked as a promotional tool for the movie by introducing Pikachu's style from the climax of the movie.